Off you go then nvubu.

Oh alright - here you go

I've got a slightly unusual one 1:00:25 to 1:02:42


I don't know where this is (apart from somewhere on Zanzibar)

Anyone able to pin point the airstrip?
also what country had the aircraft registration "OR" as I can't find that either.

I think we've crossed again! Lets run with Nvubu's for now.

I think the airfield could only have been what is now Abeid Amani Karume.

It was called Kisauni.

I don't think it is. If you listen to the film the narrator states that they have been denied landing permission at Zanzibar Airport so they have landed at a disused runway to the north.

Unless the Zanzibar airport in 1964 was somewhere else?

Search google images for Kisauni Airport 1960 - too much infrastructure for this airstrip

I have searched the island on GE and there is something which could have been a strip at 05 46N 39 20E.

Apart from that I can see nothing more so we might not be able to locate it.

That ref is in Ethiopia - although it does sort of match the images on the film. Can you post a GE screenshot of where you have found?

The lat/long I have given is the NE corner of Zanzibar, not Ethiopia.

5 degrees 46 minutes 10 seconds S and thirty nine degrees 20 minutes 6 seconds E.

Sorry - my first post said N not S.

http://i68.tinypic.com/2q0mtmf.jpg

It looks convincing but if you run the 'historical imagery' slide back to 2015 it docent exist. That is a very new strip.

Yeah I'd seen that one, but I'm fairly sure that is a later addition (and not an airstrip) as it only appeared between the 2015 & 2016 image.

I think you are right that this may be one that is now lost to the mists of time - it was 55 years ago.

I visited Zanzibar in 1991, and it looks to have changed hugely since then. I knew that there had been a revolution in Zanzibar in the early 1960s but I hadn't realised quite how violent it was. The whole film is a bit of an eye opener, and I thought that I was quite knowledgeable about the end of colonialism in Africa.

Any thoughts of the aircraft registration? I'd assume Tanganyika as the film says that they were hired from the mainland.

There is another airfield at 01:47:48 :) I think it is Elizabethville/Lubumbashi, but not 100% on this.



I'm happy to pass control back to Flap40 - I'll keep on looking around for info about it and post up if I can find anything.

OK, to summarise again, This airfield existed because of the industrial plant next door. They operated a DC-3 and a DC-4. The plant is still in production but this airfield is no longer visible. There is a newer strip to serve the plant nearby.


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3b99f7e9ed.jpg

Does this mean a follow-on and we're back in Zanzibar ?

Not Zanzibar but there is a connection.

Something to do with the travel industry ?

No. I'll add that we are in Africa.

Still trying to find a connection with Zanzibar.

Jewellery ? Mozambique ?

can you expand on that?

Yes - I was thinking of diamond mining.

The Zanzibar Sunburst Zircon.

There is a connection with diamonds but that is not the connection to Zanzibar.

Just my luck.